Designing, developing, and delivering innovative projects that encourage thinking, learning, and wonder.
I am a researcher, writer, editor, product manager, strategist, and educator who:
- Investigates and cultivates audiences and users
- Builds content strategy across channels
- Designs frameworks and narratives for compelling communications
- Analyzes and interprets qualitative and quantitative data
- Developmentally edits the work others
- Prioritizes the big picture and executes final details
I’m passionate about innovative projects that inspire learning and community action for the common good. Most recently I advanced digital audience engagement and strategy for Environmental Defense Fund, a global non-profit, through marketing content and campaigns, user experience research, and testing.
As a Research Associate and an ACLS Public Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, I developed exhibitions, public programming, web sites, and scholarly books for the National Museum of American History.
I also have been part of several collaborative and innovative digital history projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Most recently I led the PressForward research and development project in scholarly communications as Co-Principal Investigator and Research Assistant Professor. In addition to developing the PressForward plugin to facilitate the aggregation, curation, and dissemination of scholarship, I edited two experimental publications: Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities.
In addition to product development and project management, I have taught in college classrooms, museum galleries, and public venues.
At Indiana University I studied music performance and earned a BA in History and Latin. My PhD is in American Studies from George Washington University, where I researched immigration history, visual culture, and public understandings of the past. View a full CV.
